Perpetual Motion Attends the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition

Update: 2025-05-19

Description

The Perpetual Motion podcast visits the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition and talks with several of the 42 teams from around the world competing for more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes.

Timestamps:

2:02 - GreenLIB: One-step pre-treatment process that extracts and refines critical battery elements
4:25 - Rora: Committed to bettering women’s health at every life stage by creating innovative products for menopause symptom management
8:10 - Safe Marine Transfer: Focused on safe subsea chemical injection to economically extend deepwater subsea tiebacks
13:01 - Xatoms: using AI and Quantum-Chemistry to discover new materials to clean polluted water
16:57 - Pinwheel: Designed for kids and managed by parents, this cool looking, modern phone helps kids grow into independent adults who use technology well
23:20 - Watermarked.ai: Disrupts AI model training with undetectable audio watermarks and detects AI-generated deepfakes
25:46 - Mito Robotics: AI-powered robotic system designed to automate research-scale cell culture